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Sustainable Development Goals

Launch of ‘Supermini Courses’ on systems play

The potential of systems thinking and social innovation to effect significant change at multiple different scales is massive, especially in the development sector. However, a lack of accessible resources and modules around this school of thought limit its potential to be utilised by actors and stakeholders in the field. Development …

Literacy, Women Empowerment and Sustainable Development

Two-thirds of the world’s adult illiterates are women. Literacy is crucial for promoting women’s rights, achieving empowerment, enhancing livelihood skills, strengthening their participation and leadership in the public sphere, and ensuring gender justice. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in September 2015, state under Goal 4: …

Empowering Entrepreneurial Space to Go Green and Become Inclusive

Circular economy is an evolution of findings of the Limits to Growth theorists. It challenges the linear take, make and dispose model of industrial production, seeking to decouple economic growth from resource use. It has recently gained significant traction, particularly in the global business community and advanced economies – as …

Achieving the SDGs through legislation in Sikkim

The United Nations sponsored Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by 193 member states came into effect in January 2016. India, being one of the member states, has set up the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog which is the nodal body responsible for facilitating and reporting on India’s progress …

Enhancing the 5 capitals – reducing our footprints and living in balance

The exchange of goods and services amongst people represents the economy as we know it today. However, we know that these transactions draw upon resources in the natural system represented by exchanges between people and nature. This heavily influences interactions within the natural system impacting the capacities of the natural …